Product overview — Relational Databases Medium

Neon

Serverless Postgres optimized for modern developer workflows like branching and ephemeral environments, evaluated when dev workflow is the bottleneck.

Sources linked — see verification below.

Freshness & verification

Last updated 2026-02-09 Intel generated 2026-01-14 2 sources linked

Who is this best for?

This is the fastest way to decide whether Neon is in the right neighborhood.

Best for
  • Teams that want branching/ephemeral Postgres workflows
  • Developer-heavy orgs optimizing for iteration speed
  • Teams that need fast environment spin-up for previews and CI
Who should avoid
  • You need enterprise ecosystem alignment and governance in a hyperscaler
  • You need distributed SQL resilience patterns
  • You need a traditional managed Postgres operating model without validating constraints/limits

Sources & verification

Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.

  1. https://neon.tech/ ↗
  2. https://neon.tech/pricing ↗